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1ST ATS HI.'T.niCV, .'. ;CISTY
HITT & LOWRV 1T.
COLUMBIA. MO. 65201
ST. 12-5-- 74
- of new state prison
AO,v v , ,,, Story on page 16 Wth Year-No.- 213 Good Morning! If Friday. May 27 1977 16 Pages - 15 Cents
Jamestown
finds way
to survive
By Susan L,Hehn
Missourian staff writer
JAMESTOWN, Mo. - Jamestown,
tucked away in some of the state's most
scenic hills between Columbia and
Jefferson City on Missouri 178, is
winning a continuing struggle to keep
itself thriving and to keep its name on
the map.
The town has a population of only
about 255, one general store, one bank,
a diner and a laundromat. But Mrs.
Elsie Steiner, a part-tim-e librarian at
the Jamestown school, says Jamestown
has an active lion's Club, both Boy and
Girl Scouts and a recently started 4-- H
club. The closely knit community has
four active churches, more per capita
than almost any city in Missouri. And it
has a new retirement center for senior
citizens which has increased the
population by 13 since it was completed
in 1974.
The retirement center has turned out
to be one of the most important projects
the town has undertaken for the
residents of the center as well as the
other townspeople.
Ward Geier. head of the People's
Bank of Jamestown, says the project
was begun when a group of men in town
learned other towns were getting
retirement centers and thought it might
be possible to get one in Jamestown.
Geier was one of the men to meet with
the Farmers Home Administration
representative at that time, Printis
Cartees, to discuss the requirements
for starting a retirement center. FHA
agreed to match every $10 the town
could raise with a $1,000 loan.
Originally it was decided $132,000 would
be needed, but Geier says it didn't take
quite that much to get started.
The men established the Jamestown IBigigilt
Retirement Housing Association and
asked for people to join the-assocMi- on
by paying $10. "We got pledges from
people in and around Jamestown and
surrounding towns including Jefferson
City, California and Columbia," Geier
says. Newspaper articles led many out-of-to- wn
persons to join. "We began
receiving pledges and made the first
deposit in the account Nov. 15, 1971."
By Aug. 1, 1972 the group had enough in
pledges, $1,254, matched by the FHA
loan, to begin.
The association elected officers for
the board of directors and selected a
site which would be acceptable to the
FHA. It had to be close to town so older
people could walk to get groceries and
have easy access to other services.
They selected about an acre just one
block from all those services, received
the first check from FHA June 25, 1973,
for $5,000 and bought the land.
A year and three days later, three
buildings wi four apartments in each
and a community center had been built
on the land. The association began
renting the housing the following month
and filled seven apartments almost
immediately. Since then, all 12
apartments have been filled and five
persons remain on a waiting list.
Senior citizens at least 62 years old
living on fixed incomes and able to take
care of themselves or low-inco- me
individuals are eligible to live at the
retirement center, Geier says.
Although older persons have priority,
when no older persons are on the
waiting list for available spaces, young
persons on limited incomes may live in
one of the apartments.
The minimum rent is $75 per month,
with a maximum of $125 per month,
based on the individual's income. This
includes all utilities paid, insurance on
each building and any necessary
maintenance. Residents must furnish
household insurance and pay their own
telephone bills.
Geier, who was treasurer on the first
board of directors of the association,
says it is a non-pro-fit organization and
self-supporti- ng. The 50-ye- ar loan from
FHA will be paid back in 2024.
For many reasons, the pecple who
live in the retirement center are happy
there. And it has drawn some active
senior citizens into the community.
Myrtle Seif ert, who serves as president
of the housing association board of
directors, is one of the most active. She
says she was asked to run for a board
seat because she lives in the center and
knows when anything needs repair or
goes wrong.
Mrs. Seifert originally was from
(See RETIREMENT, page IS)
Im towa s
today
Exhibits
See Vibrations magazine for
continuing exhibit schedules.
Movie listings oo page IS
Keith Graham
Only a few shoppers found the parking spaces on the west end of the
traffic loop on Broadway, above. Parking was about normal on
Broadway between Eighth and Ninth streets, right. The pictures
were taken about 4: 30 p.m. Thursday.
Confused drivers adjust
slowly to traffic loop
By Betty Connor, James Lung
and Steve Kalin
Missourian staff w liters
The downtown loop's maiden voyage
Thursday began a little shakily, but the
ship is still afloat.
A team of Columbia Missourian
reporters roamed through the down-town
area from 7:30 a m. Thursday
until the evening rush hour ended about
6pm.
Traffic was light in the loop in the
early morning hours, except on Walnut
and Cherry streets. By noontime,
however, traffic increased throughout
the loop area and congestion and
confusion were apparent.
At the corner of Sixth and Walnut
streets, congestion was severe. Officer
Mike Morns of the Columbia Police
Reserve said the scene was one of
"mass confusion "
"I could have given 100 tickets in the
past hour." he said
By the evening rush hour, drivers
seemed much more aware of the traffic
patterns as congestion eased
noticeably
Drivers tended to short-circu- it the
loop by traveling one block north or
south of Broadway to Walnut and Ash
streets At the same time. Ash and
l-oc-ust
streets missed the outer loop
traffic they were designed to handle.
The loop's success depends on how
Columbians adjust to the concept of a
central downtown district bounded by
the traffic loop. Bob Pugh said.
Pugh was part of a Downtown Task
Force fact-findi- ng team that toured the
loop at noon.
Public Works Director Raj Beck
clocked the trip at about five minutes,
but said earlier he expects traffic to
move faster within a week when street
lanes are painted, all the directional
signs are installed and the signals on
Broadway are operating
"It's a credit to Columbia drivers
that the caught on so fast." Beck said
The task force got the chance to see
first-han- d where Columbia dmers
didn't catch on so fast
The task force agreed the public
needed more time and education before
the loop could be accuratel evaluated
Pugh said most citizens are unfamiliar
with the new traffic plan, but seem
"willing to try it."
93-year-o- ld shoe shop
holds swan sons sale
By Steve Perkins
Missourian staff writer
After 93 years, one of the oldest
shoe businesses west of the
Mississippi River is going out of
business. Miller's Shoe Store, 800 E.
Broadway, began its final sale
I Thursday. It will stay open until the
I store has "no more to sell."
Edwin Bihr, owner and manager
of the store since 1945, said, "I've
been in business a long time, and
there is no one else to carry on. I feel
it was my time to liquidate rather
than leave it to a widow to do it."
Birh said he just decided to stop.
"It was an accumulation of things,"
Bihr said. "Columbia has grown in
retail sales outlets far more than the
population has grown.
"The downtown location has not
been that much of an advantage
anyway, and it has become harder to
make enough money. Being the
owner of a family business is not my
Vn.i ,
idea of the American dream."
Bihr said he did an "extensive"
study of retail business in the
downtown area. He found the
increase in the square footage of
retail business space in Columbia
had doubled in a recent four-ye- ar
period while it took Columbia 22 to 23
years to double its population.
"Most people think it's a gold mine
to get a business in Columbia," he
said. "Most people don't realize that
students bnng most of their retail
needs from home and buy
emergency needs here."
Working almost six days a week at
a family business can be tiring, said
Bihr, and if the blue laws prohibiting
the sale of some items on Sunday are
repealed, "it will get worse."
Bihr, a former Columbia school
board president, said he hopes to be
employed in the education field after
the store closes, although he has not
received any offers. J
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Keith Graham
Housing code violated
Rainbow Car Wash fined
By Douglas Arnold
Missourian staff writer
Twelve charges of housing code
violations against Ken Henderson were
dismissed Thursday in Municipal
Court. Instead, Rainbow Car Wash
Manufacturing Inc., was found guilty of
the 12 charges that date back to Sept.
30, 1976.
Henderson originally was charged
with the violations as the agent of
record for Rainbow. A pre-tri-al
agreement was made with City At-torney
Phillip Morgan that if Rainbow
pleaded guilty, the charges against
Henderson would be dismissed and the
city would recommend Rainbow be
fined $1,800.
The city would further recommend
that $1,400 of the fine be stayed if
Rainbow is not charged within six
months with other housing code
violations.
Judge Fred Dannov accepted a plea
of guilty from Herschel "Slim" Jones,
70, of 305 Waugh St., president of
Rainbow. Dannov also dismissed all
charges against Henderson and ac-cepted
the city's recommendation on
the fine. Rainbow operated the building
at 1113 Paquin St. at the time the
violations were cited.
The charges stemmed from 40
(See VIOLATIONS, page 16)
Court favors urban sprawl study
By Jean Becker
Missourian staff writer
A proposed citizen task force to study
urban sprawl in Boone County has
received favorable reaction from the
three County Court judges.
Mayor Les Proctor first suggested
the 10-- to 12-mem- ber task force at a City
Council retreat last weekend. He hopes
to present the idea to the council in
ordinance form sometime in June.
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh said in an
interview the task force is a good idea
as long as the county has sufficient
input because the problem actually lies
outside Columbia city limits.
But Freeh said he doesn't think the
county should deal with it alone, either.
"It's a common problem, and we must
find a common solution."
Northern Judge Dick Farmer also
said he thinks the task force will work
as long as the county is part of it. He
said he doesn't believe the city is
interested in annexing but is simply
interested in solving the problems.
Southern District Judge Carolyn
Lathrop said that someone has to do a
study, and the task force sounds like a
good tool.
Freeh said the county will be on the
defensive in the study because it
doesn't have the money or staff for
(See FRECH, page 14)
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Calling
the death penalty "a deterrent to the
epidemic of violent crime," Gov.
Joseph P. Teasdale Thursday signed
into law the death penalty for Missouri.
Officials hope the new law, which
takes effect immediately, will answer
some of the constitutional questions
that had been raised by the U.S.
Supreme Court and the Missouri
Supreme Court.
Teasdale, a former Jackson County
prosecutor, said he was satisfied the
bill complies with the guidelines set out
by the Supreme Court for death penalty
statutes. He added it should be a
warning that "a tradition is about to be
established where the horrible act
could likely result in forfeiture of the
life of the murderer."
The measure, sponsored by House
Speaker Pro Tern Bob Griffin, D-Camer- on,
easily cleared both houses of
the legislature. The action came less
than a year after the U.S. Supreme
Court struck down death penalty laws
similar to Missouri's and only months
after the state Supreme Court voided
the Missouri law.
Missouri's last execution was in
February 1965, when Lloyd Leo
Anderson of St. Louis was executed in
the gas chamber at the main prison for
the slaying of a teen-ag- er during a drug
store holdup
The new law calls for a trial with two
hearings for those accused of capital
murder one to determine if the
defendant is guilty, a second to
determine the penalty, either death or a
lesser punishment.
Evidence mitigating or aggravating
the decision on whether the penalty
should be death could be offered only at
the second hearing. And without at
least one of 10 statutory aggravating
circumstances, a person may not be
sentenced to death. The aggravating
circumstances are:
- The person has a prior capital
murder conviction or history of assault
convictions.
k-- The murder was committed while
the offender was engaged in the
commission of another murder.
In the commission of the murder,
the lives of more than one person were
endangered.
v The offender committed capital
murder for himself or another to
receive money.
v The capital murder was
committed against a judicial officer,
former judicial officer or prosecuting
attorney exercising his official duty
v The offender caused or directed
another to commit capital murder.
The offense was outrageously or
wantonly vile.
The capital murder was
committed against any peace officer,
corrections employe or fireman
engaged in the performance of his duty.
The capital murder was
committed by a person in or who had
escaped from the lawful custody of a
police officer.
k-- It was committed while
attempting to avoid arrest or to prevent
the arrest of another.

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1ST ATS HI.'T.niCV, .'. ;CISTY
HITT & LOWRV 1T.
COLUMBIA. MO. 65201
ST. 12-5-- 74
- of new state prison
AO,v v , ,,, Story on page 16 Wth Year-No.- 213 Good Morning! If Friday. May 27 1977 16 Pages - 15 Cents
Jamestown
finds way
to survive
By Susan L,Hehn
Missourian staff writer
JAMESTOWN, Mo. - Jamestown,
tucked away in some of the state's most
scenic hills between Columbia and
Jefferson City on Missouri 178, is
winning a continuing struggle to keep
itself thriving and to keep its name on
the map.
The town has a population of only
about 255, one general store, one bank,
a diner and a laundromat. But Mrs.
Elsie Steiner, a part-tim-e librarian at
the Jamestown school, says Jamestown
has an active lion's Club, both Boy and
Girl Scouts and a recently started 4-- H
club. The closely knit community has
four active churches, more per capita
than almost any city in Missouri. And it
has a new retirement center for senior
citizens which has increased the
population by 13 since it was completed
in 1974.
The retirement center has turned out
to be one of the most important projects
the town has undertaken for the
residents of the center as well as the
other townspeople.
Ward Geier. head of the People's
Bank of Jamestown, says the project
was begun when a group of men in town
learned other towns were getting
retirement centers and thought it might
be possible to get one in Jamestown.
Geier was one of the men to meet with
the Farmers Home Administration
representative at that time, Printis
Cartees, to discuss the requirements
for starting a retirement center. FHA
agreed to match every $10 the town
could raise with a $1,000 loan.
Originally it was decided $132,000 would
be needed, but Geier says it didn't take
quite that much to get started.
The men established the Jamestown IBigigilt
Retirement Housing Association and
asked for people to join the-assocMi- on
by paying $10. "We got pledges from
people in and around Jamestown and
surrounding towns including Jefferson
City, California and Columbia," Geier
says. Newspaper articles led many out-of-to- wn
persons to join. "We began
receiving pledges and made the first
deposit in the account Nov. 15, 1971."
By Aug. 1, 1972 the group had enough in
pledges, $1,254, matched by the FHA
loan, to begin.
The association elected officers for
the board of directors and selected a
site which would be acceptable to the
FHA. It had to be close to town so older
people could walk to get groceries and
have easy access to other services.
They selected about an acre just one
block from all those services, received
the first check from FHA June 25, 1973,
for $5,000 and bought the land.
A year and three days later, three
buildings wi four apartments in each
and a community center had been built
on the land. The association began
renting the housing the following month
and filled seven apartments almost
immediately. Since then, all 12
apartments have been filled and five
persons remain on a waiting list.
Senior citizens at least 62 years old
living on fixed incomes and able to take
care of themselves or low-inco- me
individuals are eligible to live at the
retirement center, Geier says.
Although older persons have priority,
when no older persons are on the
waiting list for available spaces, young
persons on limited incomes may live in
one of the apartments.
The minimum rent is $75 per month,
with a maximum of $125 per month,
based on the individual's income. This
includes all utilities paid, insurance on
each building and any necessary
maintenance. Residents must furnish
household insurance and pay their own
telephone bills.
Geier, who was treasurer on the first
board of directors of the association,
says it is a non-pro-fit organization and
self-supporti- ng. The 50-ye- ar loan from
FHA will be paid back in 2024.
For many reasons, the pecple who
live in the retirement center are happy
there. And it has drawn some active
senior citizens into the community.
Myrtle Seif ert, who serves as president
of the housing association board of
directors, is one of the most active. She
says she was asked to run for a board
seat because she lives in the center and
knows when anything needs repair or
goes wrong.
Mrs. Seifert originally was from
(See RETIREMENT, page IS)
Im towa s
today
Exhibits
See Vibrations magazine for
continuing exhibit schedules.
Movie listings oo page IS
Keith Graham
Only a few shoppers found the parking spaces on the west end of the
traffic loop on Broadway, above. Parking was about normal on
Broadway between Eighth and Ninth streets, right. The pictures
were taken about 4: 30 p.m. Thursday.
Confused drivers adjust
slowly to traffic loop
By Betty Connor, James Lung
and Steve Kalin
Missourian staff w liters
The downtown loop's maiden voyage
Thursday began a little shakily, but the
ship is still afloat.
A team of Columbia Missourian
reporters roamed through the down-town
area from 7:30 a m. Thursday
until the evening rush hour ended about
6pm.
Traffic was light in the loop in the
early morning hours, except on Walnut
and Cherry streets. By noontime,
however, traffic increased throughout
the loop area and congestion and
confusion were apparent.
At the corner of Sixth and Walnut
streets, congestion was severe. Officer
Mike Morns of the Columbia Police
Reserve said the scene was one of
"mass confusion "
"I could have given 100 tickets in the
past hour." he said
By the evening rush hour, drivers
seemed much more aware of the traffic
patterns as congestion eased
noticeably
Drivers tended to short-circu- it the
loop by traveling one block north or
south of Broadway to Walnut and Ash
streets At the same time. Ash and
l-oc-ust
streets missed the outer loop
traffic they were designed to handle.
The loop's success depends on how
Columbians adjust to the concept of a
central downtown district bounded by
the traffic loop. Bob Pugh said.
Pugh was part of a Downtown Task
Force fact-findi- ng team that toured the
loop at noon.
Public Works Director Raj Beck
clocked the trip at about five minutes,
but said earlier he expects traffic to
move faster within a week when street
lanes are painted, all the directional
signs are installed and the signals on
Broadway are operating
"It's a credit to Columbia drivers
that the caught on so fast." Beck said
The task force got the chance to see
first-han- d where Columbia dmers
didn't catch on so fast
The task force agreed the public
needed more time and education before
the loop could be accuratel evaluated
Pugh said most citizens are unfamiliar
with the new traffic plan, but seem
"willing to try it."
93-year-o- ld shoe shop
holds swan sons sale
By Steve Perkins
Missourian staff writer
After 93 years, one of the oldest
shoe businesses west of the
Mississippi River is going out of
business. Miller's Shoe Store, 800 E.
Broadway, began its final sale
I Thursday. It will stay open until the
I store has "no more to sell."
Edwin Bihr, owner and manager
of the store since 1945, said, "I've
been in business a long time, and
there is no one else to carry on. I feel
it was my time to liquidate rather
than leave it to a widow to do it."
Birh said he just decided to stop.
"It was an accumulation of things,"
Bihr said. "Columbia has grown in
retail sales outlets far more than the
population has grown.
"The downtown location has not
been that much of an advantage
anyway, and it has become harder to
make enough money. Being the
owner of a family business is not my
Vn.i ,
idea of the American dream."
Bihr said he did an "extensive"
study of retail business in the
downtown area. He found the
increase in the square footage of
retail business space in Columbia
had doubled in a recent four-ye- ar
period while it took Columbia 22 to 23
years to double its population.
"Most people think it's a gold mine
to get a business in Columbia," he
said. "Most people don't realize that
students bnng most of their retail
needs from home and buy
emergency needs here."
Working almost six days a week at
a family business can be tiring, said
Bihr, and if the blue laws prohibiting
the sale of some items on Sunday are
repealed, "it will get worse."
Bihr, a former Columbia school
board president, said he hopes to be
employed in the education field after
the store closes, although he has not
received any offers. J
IB8MHBBWBBBjBBBaBJBMMMBaKMMBBBBM
Keith Graham
Housing code violated
Rainbow Car Wash fined
By Douglas Arnold
Missourian staff writer
Twelve charges of housing code
violations against Ken Henderson were
dismissed Thursday in Municipal
Court. Instead, Rainbow Car Wash
Manufacturing Inc., was found guilty of
the 12 charges that date back to Sept.
30, 1976.
Henderson originally was charged
with the violations as the agent of
record for Rainbow. A pre-tri-al
agreement was made with City At-torney
Phillip Morgan that if Rainbow
pleaded guilty, the charges against
Henderson would be dismissed and the
city would recommend Rainbow be
fined $1,800.
The city would further recommend
that $1,400 of the fine be stayed if
Rainbow is not charged within six
months with other housing code
violations.
Judge Fred Dannov accepted a plea
of guilty from Herschel "Slim" Jones,
70, of 305 Waugh St., president of
Rainbow. Dannov also dismissed all
charges against Henderson and ac-cepted
the city's recommendation on
the fine. Rainbow operated the building
at 1113 Paquin St. at the time the
violations were cited.
The charges stemmed from 40
(See VIOLATIONS, page 16)
Court favors urban sprawl study
By Jean Becker
Missourian staff writer
A proposed citizen task force to study
urban sprawl in Boone County has
received favorable reaction from the
three County Court judges.
Mayor Les Proctor first suggested
the 10-- to 12-mem- ber task force at a City
Council retreat last weekend. He hopes
to present the idea to the council in
ordinance form sometime in June.
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh said in an
interview the task force is a good idea
as long as the county has sufficient
input because the problem actually lies
outside Columbia city limits.
But Freeh said he doesn't think the
county should deal with it alone, either.
"It's a common problem, and we must
find a common solution."
Northern Judge Dick Farmer also
said he thinks the task force will work
as long as the county is part of it. He
said he doesn't believe the city is
interested in annexing but is simply
interested in solving the problems.
Southern District Judge Carolyn
Lathrop said that someone has to do a
study, and the task force sounds like a
good tool.
Freeh said the county will be on the
defensive in the study because it
doesn't have the money or staff for
(See FRECH, page 14)
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Calling
the death penalty "a deterrent to the
epidemic of violent crime," Gov.
Joseph P. Teasdale Thursday signed
into law the death penalty for Missouri.
Officials hope the new law, which
takes effect immediately, will answer
some of the constitutional questions
that had been raised by the U.S.
Supreme Court and the Missouri
Supreme Court.
Teasdale, a former Jackson County
prosecutor, said he was satisfied the
bill complies with the guidelines set out
by the Supreme Court for death penalty
statutes. He added it should be a
warning that "a tradition is about to be
established where the horrible act
could likely result in forfeiture of the
life of the murderer."
The measure, sponsored by House
Speaker Pro Tern Bob Griffin, D-Camer- on,
easily cleared both houses of
the legislature. The action came less
than a year after the U.S. Supreme
Court struck down death penalty laws
similar to Missouri's and only months
after the state Supreme Court voided
the Missouri law.
Missouri's last execution was in
February 1965, when Lloyd Leo
Anderson of St. Louis was executed in
the gas chamber at the main prison for
the slaying of a teen-ag- er during a drug
store holdup
The new law calls for a trial with two
hearings for those accused of capital
murder one to determine if the
defendant is guilty, a second to
determine the penalty, either death or a
lesser punishment.
Evidence mitigating or aggravating
the decision on whether the penalty
should be death could be offered only at
the second hearing. And without at
least one of 10 statutory aggravating
circumstances, a person may not be
sentenced to death. The aggravating
circumstances are:
- The person has a prior capital
murder conviction or history of assault
convictions.
k-- The murder was committed while
the offender was engaged in the
commission of another murder.
In the commission of the murder,
the lives of more than one person were
endangered.
v The offender committed capital
murder for himself or another to
receive money.
v The capital murder was
committed against a judicial officer,
former judicial officer or prosecuting
attorney exercising his official duty
v The offender caused or directed
another to commit capital murder.
The offense was outrageously or
wantonly vile.
The capital murder was
committed against any peace officer,
corrections employe or fireman
engaged in the performance of his duty.
The capital murder was
committed by a person in or who had
escaped from the lawful custody of a
police officer.
k-- It was committed while
attempting to avoid arrest or to prevent
the arrest of another.